Thanksgiving Wine To Serve
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Thanksgiving wine to serve. There are sweet and rich yams tart cranberries buttery mashed potatoes stuffing made with any number of ingredients and spiced pumpkin pie for dessert. Rita hills pinot noir 2015. While there are a few ideal turkey pairing wines there s more to selecting the best wine for thanksgiving dinner than the bird consider the following. Top 5 best thanksgiving wines er.
Dinner also includes yams green bean casserole and cranberry sauce. Sep 26 2019 skynesher getty images. You ve spent weeks planning your thanksgiving dinner from the appetizers to the turkey to the delightful sweet potatoes to the dessert. Hopefully you ll survive black out wednesday and be ready for another day of drinking.
If thanksgiving is the most quintessential american holiday zinfandels are the most quintessentially american wines says angela gargano wine director at montana s triple creek ranch. Here s what wine we serve for thanksgiving friendsgiving. Super dry white with green and herbaceous flavors with medium acidity. The silver is polished.
You ve also been putting together picturesque and totally fall appropriate centerpieces and table settings. The linens are ironed. For white we went with a sauv blanc. The last one isn t wine.
Selecting a single wine for thanksgiving dinner can be difficult given the variety of foods and flavors. Our second white an unoaked viognier. I chose 5 different types of wines that covered a full range of flavor profiles while trying my best to stick with points number 2 and 3. From full bodied reds to bubbly rosés.
Whether from alsace germany or washington riesling wines are a top pick for a thanksgiving dinner white wine. Sparkling wine might feel like a pre dinner libation but the crisp taste of a brut cuvee can pair beautifully with lots of the flavors on your thanksgiving spread without overpowering the meal. 30 moving on to the yams mashed potatoes green bean salad gravy stuffing and white meat calls for something that can complement the various flavors. But now you ve got to get the wine for thanksgiving.
Riesling s innate flavors of apple apricot and honey and its clarifying acidity give it a significant pairing edge with the likes of sweet potatoes turkey and spiced or herb filled stuffing.